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88 Wood Street – London, England
Building: 88 Wood Street
Location: 88 Wood Street, London, England
Completed: 1999
Architect: Richard Rogers Partnership
Structural Engineers: Ove Arup & Partners
Main Contractor: Kajima/Laing Management
Client: Daiwa Europe Property
AE Interests: In situ concrete office wings, steel-framed service towers, fully glazed stairs and main office floors, triple-glazed active facade contains motorized blinds, external twin 72mm diameter Macalloy cross bracing, brightly coloured air intakes and extracts located at street level.
Chameleon Exhibition Centre – Istanbul, Turkey
Building: Chameleon (Borusan) Exhibition Centre
Location: Parkorman Forest, Istanbul, Turkey
Completed: 2001
Architect: GAD Architecture
Client: Borusan Company
AE Interests: Angular shaped building was determined by positioning around the old pine trees, all floors accessible by ramps and not stairs, ventilation slots are cut into a trapezoidal ramp that conceals the HVAC system, steel-clad facade.
British Library – London, England
Building: British Library
Location: 96 Euston Road, London, England
Completed: 1997
Architect: Colin St. John Wilson & Partners
Geotechnical Engineers: Grontmij
Client: British Library
AE Interests: Rhomboid shape, four story glass tower in the middle of the library, books stored under building in a low oxygen, temperature cooled and humidity free environment.
Broadwick House – London, England
Building: Broadwick House
Location: 15-17 Broadwick Street, London, England
Completed: 2002
Architect: Richard Rogers Partnership
Structural Engineers: Ove Arup & Partners
Main Contractor: John Sisk & Son
Client: Derwent Valley Holdings plc
AE Interests: Service cores on the western edge of the building allow for fully glazed facades, arched roof, energy efficiency is maintained with: motorized blinds, solar performance glazing, and a grid of fine aluminum louvers.
House on Bacon Street – London, England
Building: House on Bacon Street
Location: Bacon Street, London, England
Completed: 2001
Architect: William Russell Architecture and Design
AE Interests: Walls, floors, and ceilings are made of concrete cast in situ; reinforced concrete frame, galvanized-steel panels are hinged for ventilation, black Alwitra roofing membrane, south facing exterior double-glazed panel can slid across to open up one wall of the living room.
No. One Centaur Street – London, England
Building: No. One Centaur Street
Location: One Centaur Street, London, England
Completed: 2003
Architect: dRMM
Structural Engineers: Adams Kara Taylor
Client: Solid Space Development Ltd.
AE Interests: Building is conceived as “inside-out” with a wooden exterior and concrete interior, the exterior is actually a fibrous mock-timber rain screen, the interior walls are a textured concrete.
30 Finsbury Square – London, England
Building: 30 Finsbury Square
Location: 30 Finsbury Square, London, England
Completed: 2002
Architect: Eric Parry Architects
Structural Engineers: Whitbybird
Mechanical and Electrical Engineers: Hilson Moran Partnership Ltd.
Client: Scottish Widows plc
AE Interests: Flexible office space is achieved from having no internal columns, a glass curtain wall is set back from the outer stone facade, the depth of the facade provides solar shading and acts as a load-bearing element.
Canary Wharf Underground Station – London, England
Building: Canary Wharf Underground Station
Location: London, England
Completed: 1999
Architect: Foster + Partners
Strutural Engineers: Ove Arup & Partners
Client: Jubilee Line Extension Project (JLEP)
AE Interests: Glass canopies cover station entrances; fair-faced concrete, stainless steel, and glass were the only materials used in the stations construction; concrete diaphragm tunnel walls are left exposed.
VXO House – London, England
Building: VXO House
Location: 16 Spaniard’s End, London, England
Completion: August 2000
Architect: Alison Brooks Architecture
Structural Engineers: Price & Myers
Clients: Yoram and Sabina Amiga
AE Interests: Extension and refurbishment of a 1960′s villa: folded and displaced ground planes, V-columns, optical/structural illusion, inside-out and upside-down, facade is made of a timber plate, suspended stair hangs from walls of stainless steel mesh.
Peckham Library and Media Centre – London, UK
Building: Peckham Library and Media Centre
Location: 122 Peckham Hill Street, London, England, UK
Completion: 1999
Architect: Alsop Architecture
Structural Engineers: Adams Kara Taylor Engineers
Facade: Gebr. Kufferath AG
Client: London Borough of Southwark
AE Interests: The building is a giant inverted capital letter ‘L’, cantilevered overhang held up by diagonal columns, concrete frame for natural cooling, “tongue” on the roof acts as a shade for ventilation shafts, the north face is covered in multi-colored glass panels and the rest of the exterior is made of copper.
UTL2011-E, UTL2011-A?
Sighvatsson House – Venice, California
Building: Sighvatsson House
Location: Venice, California
Status: Commission 2005
Architects: Rem Koolhaas OMA
AE Interests: moveable partitions between the rooms allow the house to be transformed into specific rooms or an open area, the exterior of the house is covered in a homogeneous skin to allow light in while having limited viewing from the sides of the house for privacy
Villa Dall’Ava – Paris France
Building: Villa Dall’Ava
Location: St. Cloud, Paris, France
Status: Completed in 1991
Architects: Rem Koolhaas OMA
Engineer: Marc Mimram
General Contractor: Entreprise Mare
Award: 1991 Winner Prix d’architecture du Moniteur, 1991, Paris, France
AE Interests: swimming pool lies on a concrete slab on the roof of the house, a glass pavilion lies underneath the pool containing the living room and dining room
Educatorium – Utrecht, Netherlands
Building: Educatorium
Location: University of Utrecht
Status: Completed in 1997
Architects: Rem Koolhaas OMA
Structural Engineers: ABT Adviesbureau voor Bouwtechniek bv
Awards: 1999 Gerrit Rietveld Prize
AE Interests: the design of the building is two sheets which fold and interlock to accommodate the range of programs like learning/teaching to social gathering and circulation, the concrete slab is treated as a transformable surface to fit each program, the larger auditorium is enclosed by two walls with one being made of a laminated holographic film that changes from transparent to translucent depending on the location of the viewer
Bryghusprojektet – Copenhagen, Denmark
Building: Bryghusprojektet
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Status: 2008 Concept Design
Architects: Rem Koolhaas OMA
Engineers: Arup
Facade: van SANTEN & Associés
AE Interests: Structurally Offset Stacked Volumes, Complex Site and Program Issues.
Maison à Bordeaux – Bordeaux, France
Building: Maison à Bordeaux
Location: Private residence in Bordeaux, France
Status: Completed in 1998
Architects: Rem Koolhaas OMA
Structural Engineers: Arup
Awards: 1999 Le prix L’Equerre d’Argent, 1998 TIME Magazine Best Design of the year
AE Interests: the house is three levels and the lower level is carved out from the hill that it is located on into a series of caverns, the ground floor is a glass room that’s half inside and half outside
CCTV Headquarters- Beijing, China
image source: 1, 2
Building: Central Chinese Television Headquarters
Location: Beijing, China
Status: Under Construction- expected completion in late 2009
Architects: Rem Koolhaas OMA
Associate Architects and Engineers: ECADI- East China Architecture & Design Institute
Structural Engineers: Arup
AE Interests: the building is a contiunous loop of vertical and horizontal sections. Earthquake design, complex angular tower. `
Prada Epicenter – Beverly Hills, California
Building: Prada Epicenter Store
Location: 343 North Rodeo Drive Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California
Status: Completed 2004
Architects: Rem Koolhaas OMA
Associate Architects: Brand+Allen Architects
Structural Engineers: Ove Arup & Partners
Hydraulic Wall Engineers: Hamilton Engineering
AE Interests: Re-interpretation of high-end retail experience including: front entry with no doors (air-curtain, plasma imaging in dressing rooms, custom artificial sponge wall material, structural laminated-glass grand stair, glass that switches from translucent to transparent electronically, hydraulic storefront wall that “closes” store at night.
Seattle Central Library – Seattle, Washington
Building: Seattle Central Library
Location: 1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104
Status: Completed 2004
Architects: OMA and LMN
Engineers: Arup, Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Awards: 2005 Honor Award for Outstanding Architecture, 2005 Outstanding Library Building Award, and 2005 Platinum Award for Innovation and Engineering
AE Interests: natural lighting, five platforms and four planes placed in-between these make up the shape of the building, the “Books Spiral” is a giant spiralling bookcase containing all the libraries collection of literature. `
Joshua Prince-Ramus was partner-in-charge for OMA New York (firm has been renamed REX) for the Seattle Central Library.
REX features an interactive panorama-tour of the building here
MahaNakhon – Bangkok, Thailand
Building: MahaNakhon
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Status: Expected completion in 2012
Architects: OMA
Structural Engineers: Arup
Facade Engineers: Front, Inc.
Seismic and Wind Engineering: CPI
AE Interests: 77-story high rise, three-dimensional pixels wrap around the entire height of the skyscraper, the skyscraper has the appearance of dissolving into the ground and sky by the use of indoor/outdoor terraces
Astor Place Hotel – Manhattan, New York
Building: Astor Place Hotel
Location: Manhattan, New York
Status: Commission 2000
Architects: Rem Koolhaas OMA, Herzog & de Meuron
AE Interests: metal skin with punctured holes for each hotel room window, prismatic shape
